Capturing and sharing human digital memories with the aid of ubiquitous Peer-to-Peer mobile services

Abstract

-The explosion of mobile computing and the sharing of content ubiquitously has enabled users to create and share memories instantly. Access to different data sources, such as location, movement, and physiology, has helped to create a data rich society where new and enhanced memories will form part of everyday life. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems have also increased in popularity over the years, due to their ad hoc and decentralized nature. Mobile devices are "smarter" and are increasingly becoming part of P2P systems; opening up a whole new dimension for capturing, sharing and interacting with enhanced human digital memories. This will require original and novel platforms that automatically compose data sources from ubiquitous ad-hoc services that are prevalent within the environments we occupy. This is important for a number of reasons. Firstly, it will allow digital memories to be created that include richer information, such as how you felt when the memory was created and how you made others feel. Secondly, it provides a set of core services that can more easily manage and incorporate new sources as and when you are available. In this way memories created in the same location, and time are not necessarily similar -it depends on the data sources that are accessible. This paper presents DigMem, the initial prototype that is being developed to utilize distributed mobile services. DigMem captures and shares human digital memories, in a ubiquitous P2P environment. We present a case study to validate the implementation and evaluate the applicability of the approach.

Exploiting linked data to create rich human digital memories

“…This element is used to demonstrate the core aspect of the research, using linked data to build a HDM, which is composed of information from multiple sources. In previous work [53], the MoDM middleware platform was developed, in order to connect and access the hardware and services that distributed devices had to offer. MoDM is capable of tracking a user's outside movements by using location and camera services.…”

“…2). The mobile aspect of the system [53] is used to gather information, from a variety of pervasive devices. The server side stores the collected data and enables this information to be semantically searched, so that links between items from different data sets can be made.…”

“…Firstly, all pervasive devices, within the user's vicinity, which are running the MoDM middleware [53], are connected, via a peer-to-peer (P2P) network. The Ad-Hoc Services and Mobile Device layers then work in conjunction with each other to extract information from the devices, in the previous layer.…”

“…These occurrences happen when there is a gap in the HDM. Previous work [53] focused on only collecting outdoor information; therefore, when the user went inside the HDM stopped and there were significant gaps in their day. To overcome this challenge a wireless [54].…”

Remotely monitoring and preventing the development of pressure ulcers with the aid of human digital memories

“…Memories are often impulsive events and are better suited to being captured and shared on these portable devices. These devices are adequately compact to be carried around and are sophisticated enough for sharing content amongst users [9]. C. Dobbins, P. Fergus, M. Merabti, and D. Llewellyn-Jones, "Remotely Monitoring and Preventing the Development of Pressure Ulcers with the Aid of Human Digital Memories," in The 47th IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC '12), 2012, pp.…”